Gelareh Asayesh is the author of Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America.She grew up in Iran and lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. This

I wrote this commentary on Friday and it was aired on National Public Radio's Morning Edition today. The phone has been ringing constantly since last

From Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America, by Gelareh Asayesh (Beacon Press, November 1999).. Asayesh moved from Tehran to Chapel Hill, North Carolina,